[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 120 (Thursday, September 12, 2013)] [Daily Digest] [Page D858] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] Committee Meetings (Committees not listed did not meet) BUSINESS MEETING Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported an original resolution authorizing expenditures by the committee during the 113th Congress. HOUSING FINANCE REFORM Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine essential elements of housing finance reform, including S. 1217, to provide secondary mortgage market reform, after receiving testimony from Julia Gordon, Center for American Progress, Washington, D.C.; Jerome Lienhard, SunTrust Mortgage, Richmond, Virginia; Richard Johns, Structured Finance Industry Group, New York, New York; and Mark Zandi, Moody's Analytics, West Chester, Pennsylvania. NOMINATION Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Nisha Desai Biswal, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs, after the nominee, who was introduced by Representative Lowey, testified and answered questions in her own behalf. DENTAL CRISIS IN AMERICA Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging concluded a hearing to examine the dental crisis in America, focusing on the need to address cost, after receiving testimony from Debony R. Hughes, Prince George's County Health Department Dental Health Program, Cheverly, Maryland; Frank Catalanotto, University of Florida College of Dentistry Department of Community Dentistry, Gainesville; Greg Nycz, Family Health Center of Marshfield, Inc., Marshfield, Wisconsin; and Cathi Stallings, Falls Church, Virginia. BUSINESS MEETING Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items: S. 987, to maintain the free flow of information to the public by providing conditions for the federally compelled disclosure of information by certain persons connected with the news media, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; An original resolution authorizing expenditures by the Committee for the 113th Congress; and The nomination of Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr., to be United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Department of Justice.